Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2007 04:37:30 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote:
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > I just had discussion with my friend which file system to use on
> > > > laptop with Gentoo.
> > > >
> > > > - ReiserFS looks unsupported now
> > > > - ext3 looks slow some time
> > > > - XFS maybe?
> > > >
> > > > Requirements are:
> > > > - low memory usage
> > > > - fast enough for laptop
> > > > - good supported
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Plenty... Yes, all laptops need a journaled FS. The easiest I've found
> > > to install and then admin is EXT3. If you feel that you need anything
> > > "more powerful" then you should move your work to a desktop.
> > >
> > > As a side note, I've been using ext4dev as an expirement and I find it
> > > quite nice. However, be aware, once you enable "extents" as a boot
> > > option and cause writes to the disk (ie. save a file, etc)... you can
> > > never go back to ext3 or plain old ext2 without a format.
> >
> > if we are at recommending experimental fs, why not reiser4?
> > Its atomic structure makes it very nice - and so far it survived a lot of
> > crap it had to endure (like a lot of reset-button and plugs out of socket
> > events).
> >
> > And reiser4 has less bug reports than ext3 :P
>
> You mean bug reports that got fixed? :')

when I look at the reiser-ml there is only one open bug  I can see - and the 
last bug fix for some bug came in two days ago. Hm, in that time another XFS 
bug report hit lkml ... 

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